Dave Kommel Photography

Name: Dave Kommel Photography
Address: PO Box 428, San Dimas, CA, 91773, US
Telephone: +18185197601

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Photographic chronicles of a lifetime love of drag racing and land speed racing with a few birds and some wildlife thrown in for good measure!

After falling in love with drag racing in 1960 reading Hot Rod, I finally made it to my first race at Union Grove WI in 1966 and it was all downhill from there. I started going to Irwindale, OCIR and Lions every weekend and once I started getting photo credentials around 1973, I started traveling to races, mainly on the west coast. In 1979, Richard Shute and I teamed up to form Auto Imagery and over the next 35 years, we covered somewhere over a thousand events. Now that I am off the NHRA treadmill, I will be going to select events that pique my interest as well as continuing to scan and catalog my negs and slides from the 1970's. You can peruse and (hopefully) purchase my past and current work at www.davekommel.photoshelter.com

Richard is still on the NHRA trail and if you are looking to purchase photos from current NHRA national events, your first stop should be www.autoimagery.com. Dave Kommel Photography
PO Box 428
San Dimas CA 91773
818-519-7601 voice or text
[email protected]
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11/02/2026

Larry Van Zandt slows after a pass in his Chevy Monza AA/Funny Car at the NHRA Division 7 points race at Sacramento Raceway in 1979.

11/01/2026

Junior Kaiser in the Kaiser Bros and Widner rear engine Top Fuel dragster at the 1971 Winternationals. One of the first successful rear engine Top Fuel cars and I’m pretty certain this car pre-dates Garlits rear engine car. Not sure who is in the front engine car in the near lane, but I believe it could be Davey Uyehara.

10/31/2026

Steve McCracken’s “Sundancer” Corvette BB/FC at Sacramento Raceway in 1979.

10/30/2026

Gary Ormsby in the McCord & Ormsby Vega AA/Funny Car at Blackie Gejeian’s Winter Race of Champions at Raisin City Drag Strip near Fresno in 1973.

10/29/2026

Jim Murphy in Daniel Wilkison’s “Turbo Charger” AA/BAD at Sacramento in 1977. Jim and Daniel have been racing together for over 50 years and look for more to come in the future!

10/28/2026

Ron O’Donnell in Don Cook’s “Damn Yankee” Barracuda AA/Funny Car at Orange County International Raceway in 1971.

10/27/2026

Home and worn out with lots of editing ahead of me. Here's a few more from Sunday/Monday. Great event with not enough time to cover everything. Already looking forward to next year! Congrats to all the event winners and series champions!

10/26/2026

Just a few quick images this morning. Long day, late night and we still have 24 cars in 6 classes to finish this morning! Congrats to Tyler Hilton and Nathan Sitko on winning the series championships and Tyler Hester, Nathan Sitko and Brandon Seraphine on taking the event trophies!

10/25/2026

Saturday morning started off foggy, but turned into a beautiful day filled with sunshine and lots of action, capped off by a spectacular cacklefest. Final eliminations today followed by crowning all the series champs! Full gallery at www.competitionplus.com soon.

10/24/2026

Friday at CHRR was another day cut short by Mother Nature and limited to only one nitro qualifying session. Looking for a better day tomorrow followed by the Nitro Revival cacklefest! Full gallery soon at www.competitionplus.com

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PO Box 428
San Dimas, CA
91773

Telephone

+18185197601

Website

http://davekommel.com/

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